This free on-line MT service by Reverso is an MT product by the French company Softissimo. It features a wide number of language combinations, among which: English <=> French, French <=>German, Russian <=> French, Russian <=> English, German <=> Russian, German =>English, English => Spanish, Italian => Russian. You can even have a web page translated for you by this site.

One of the first and most successful machine translation systems. The Systran system is available as a Windows application for an attractive price. Small downloadable (and free) applications enable to access this MT system from a button or bookmark of the browser (Systran Babelfish Tools).

Great, this engine enables translation from/into Russian. It even proposes a Russian user interface. When we checked out this site we were surprised by the rapidity with which we obtained translations (given that you have a fast Internet access). Project MT says "PROMT Internet Translation Server (PITS) version 2.0 is a powerful translation solution for use on Internet/intranet. PTIS responds to the growing need of having multilingual access to the information contained in the expanding universe of Internet or locally in an enterprise intranet." and "Founded in 1991, the PROMT Company is now an industry leader."

A machine translation system brought to the web community by IBM and the company Alphaworks. Apart from some European languages this system further provides text translation from English into Chinese and Japanese.

The English-Japanese system is available as in a demo version which we have included. Fully fledged versions (personal, professional and enterprise) are available for both Windows and MacIntosh. On LEC's homepage we found the following description: "LEC is a pioneer in component software design and has developed the LogoVista Translation Model™ to provide greater flexibility and quicker implementation for its customers. The model promotes co-operation between vendors, allowing translation components to be developed independently while ensuring compatibility. The result is a wide variety of language and knowledge management systems supporting an ever-growing list of language pairs."

FreeTranslation.com uses TranscendRT Machine Translation Technology. Apart from this free service, the company, Transparent Language, also offers three other different translation services ranging from raw MT translation to complete human translation. The free MT service allows you to translate either a whole web page or up to 4 or 5 pages of text. Language pairs supported: English to Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, and Norwegian; and French, Spanish and German into English. The quality of the translations, like with most other systems varies according to the language pair and the degree of syntactic/semantic difficulty of the test

This free test version supports an incredible large number of languages not found on other systems (e.g. Welsh). A desktop version called WorTran is available as well as other products such a translation system for mobile telephones. InterTran can also be evaluated by downloading a Windows application.

"This site was started by Mooneer Salem after the need came about for an accurate machine translator. Hopefully GPLTrans will evolve into a volunteer-based translation system whose source is released and is accurate." A mirror of the site can be accessed at http://gpltrans.sourceforge.net.

The system offers raw machine translation for language combinations including the following languages: French, English, German, Spanish,Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Apart from machine translation, the company provides human translation services for a wide range of languages